单词 | nameless |
释义 | namelessadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Not having a distinguished or famous name; devoid of fame, left in obscurity, inglorious. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > obscurity or ingloriousness > [adjective] namelessc1330 ungloriousa1382 unfamousc1384 unglorifieda1395 unrenowned1525 gloryless1540 obscurec1540 incelebrateda1552 honourlessa1560 unnoted1566 eclipsed1587 irrenowned1590 inglorious1591 ungraced1595 unreputed1596 reputeless1598 unreckoned1599 undistinguished1600 unfamed1609 without name1611 unremarkable1628 uncried up1631 undignified1716 unapplauded1739 uncelebrated1740 renownless1821 bannerlessc1850 untrumpeted1859 anonymous1860 reportlessc1865 unillustrious1885 obscured1891 statusless1899 unarrived1902 c1330 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 141 Fiht is fliht, the lond is nameles. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. v. 8 Pore and nedy and nameles [L. inops ignominiosusque]. c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 251 (MED) Nethire þere is no wyse man..Þat rathire wolde be pore and namelesse And in exile, þan flouren in richesse. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 57/1 The other two were somwhat greter parsonages, & Natheles of their humilite content to be nameles. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 37 Prince Priamus..In shoare nowe namelesse dooth ly lyke a trunchon al headlesse. a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gggg2v/1 When one is smother'd with a multitude, And crowded in amongst a namelesse presse. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 380 Nameless in dark oblivion let them dwell. View more context for this quotation 1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 157 Lo thousand thousand, ev'ry nameless name. 1798 W. Wordsworth Lines Tintern Abbey in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 203 His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and love. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby iii. 128 Maiden! a nameless life I lead, A nameless death I'll die. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud iv. iii, in Maud & Other Poems 16 I am nameless and poor. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid vi, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 286 Thou hadst laid thee to die on a heap of the nameless dead. 1954 Jrnl. Politics 16 660 A nameless and faceless bureaucracy, a society of managers. 1989 J. Lingard Tug of War v. 59 They were taken off the train, near some nameless town in Poland, and herded into a camp. b. Of a person: whose name has not been divulged; anonymous; unknown (to a person). Cf. quot. 1589 at sense B. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [adjective] > with undivulged name namelessa1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. i. 98 I haue writ your Letter Vnto the secret, nameles friend of yours. View more context for this quotation 1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 36 On the false report of another namelesse author like to himselfe. 1697 E. Stillingfleet Disc. Trinity 173 A certain nameless Socinian was the Author of them. 1708 F. Atterbury 14 Serm. Pref. p. iii Little Credit is due to Accusations of this kind, when they come from suspected (that is, from Nameless) Pens. 1807 G. Crabbe Hall of Justice i, in Poems 241 Yet nameless let me plead—my Name Would only wake the Cry of Scorn. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 576 The two nameless executioners who had done their office..on the scaffold. 1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 226 A gang of Vandals (nameless, I thank heaven, to me). 1939 Fortune Nov. 28/2 Our nameless correspondent points out that the U.S. Army and National Guard war games are serious business. 1994 Chapman No. 77. 73 The white-stocked, dark-coated men nameless to me then and indistinguishable. 2. Not specified by name, purposely left unnamed, esp. to avoid imputing blame. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [adjective] > not mentioned by name nameless1381 unnamed1440 the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [adjective] > not specified by name nameless1381 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 55 Iohan schep..Greteth wel Iohon nameless & Iohn þe mullere. c1475 Advice to Lovers in J. O. Halliwell Select. Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1840) 31 (MED) Thou tolde me..That thou kneuhest one, nameles of me as nowhe. a1529 J. Skelton Ware the Hauke (1843) 38 He shall be as now nameles, But he shall not be blameles. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 194 A great Prince of Germany (for good respect namelesse). 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler ii. 46 Another of the company that shall be nameless . View more context for this quotation 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 91. ⁋1 The Loves of a Family in Town, which shall be nameless. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 38 A certain person, who shall be nameless, is now engaged on Tower duty. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 489 On the authority of one who shall be nameless. 1958 Visct. Montgomery Mem. (1961) 34 During the Somme battle that summer an infantry brigade, which had better remain nameless, was to be the leading brigade in a divisional attack. 2000 Front Oct. 145/2 There is a story concerning Herbie Flowers, Sky and a lady cellist who shall remain nameless, but it's a little too off-colour for your magazine. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [adjective] > of unknown authorship or provenance nameless1529 fatherless1541 authorless1613 anon.?1696 unassigned1868 masterless1899 unattributable1967 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 223/1 For ye boke is put forth namelesse, & was in the beginning rekened to be made by Tindal. 1643 W. Prynne in W. Prynne & C. Walker True Relation Prosecution N. Fiennes 5 I received a Note..with a datelesse, namelesse Paper inclosed. 1667 Sir R. Moray in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1885) II. 88 There is a Damned book come hither..called Naphtali, or the Wrestlings of the Church of Scotland, &c. nameless. 1786 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) IV. 339 One of the hearers wrote me a nameless letter upon it. 1822 J. Galt Provost xxx. 232 I received a twenty-pound note in a nameless letter. 4. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > illegitimate cheves-bornOE misbegetc1325 bastc1330 misbegettenc1330 bastard1376 unlawfula1425 naturalc1425 illegitime1502 base1529 base-begot1534 illegitimate1536 misbegotten1554 bastarded1579 misborn1583 nameless1594 spurious1598 unfathered1600 misgotten1623 misbegot1626 baseborn1645 slip-sprung1665 born in (or under or out of) wedlock1675 side wind1738 love-begotten1761 born on the wrong side of the blanket1771 anonymous1869 sinistral1897 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. E1v Thy issue blur'd with namelesse bastardie. View more context for this quotation 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 119 And into Noble Families advance, A Nameless Issue, the blind work of Chance. 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Visct. Cobham 12 A rev'rend Sire, whom Want of Grace Has made the Father of a Nameless Race. b. That has not hitherto been named. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [adjective] unnevenedc1400 unnamed1550 anonymal1587 untituled1610 untitled1612 titlelessa1616 anonymous1625 namelessc1625 innominate1638 innominated1660 unchristened1832 undesignated1875 uncredited1959 c1625 J. Smith Hist. Bermudaes (1882) 9 A Spanish shipp called La Bermuda, wrecked vpon them and by the losse of her selfe, bequeathed her name to the (vntill then) namelesse Ilands. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 333 Iles for the greatest part namelesse and numberlesse. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 340 We began..to enter upon the vast nameless Desart. 1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 209 A thousand nameless rills that shun the light. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 29 All the gods Are there, and all the powers of nameless worlds. 1881 A. C. Swinburne Mary Stuart ii. ii. 81 I found..her babe unblessed A nameless piteous thing. 1967 H. Nemerov Coll. Poems (1977) 399 Momentary shapes..nameless as the shapes of sky. 1991 Sky Mag. Feb. 62/2 His 800-square foot adobe house..which he shares with his wife..and eight nameless buffalo. 5. That cannot be definitely named or easily described; inexpressible, indefinable. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > inexpressibility > [adjective] unsayinglyOE wordlessa1200 unanemneda1225 unspeaking1340 untellablea1382 unenarrable1382 unspeakablea1400 ineffablec1450 inenarrablec1450 indicible1480 enarrable1482 inexplicable1502 inspeakable?1504 innominable1532 unoutspeakable1535 unexpressable1548 innarrable1554 inpronunciable1554 uncommunicable1555 inexprimablea1577 unexpressiblea1586 unutterablea1586 expressless1590 nameless1597 recountless1601 inutterable1603 indeclarable1610 unnameable1610 unreportable1611 speakless1612 unexpressivea1616 inexpressiblea1631 utterless1643 inexpressive1652 unwordablec1660 incommunicable1694 paintless1729 descriptionless1749 undelineable1767 describeless1799 indefinable1810 undescribable1818 unqualifiable1822 untelling1823 utterless1832 unpindownable1915 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. ii. 40 What, I cannot name, tis namelesse woe I wot. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 310 She hath many namelesse vertues. View more context for this quotation 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 10 Musick resembles Poetry, in each Are nameless Graces which no Methods teach. 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 244 Are all the nameless sweets of friendship fled? 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna iii. iv. 59 When, suddenly was blended With our repose a nameless sense of fear. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam iv. 4 Such clouds of nameless trouble cross All night below the darken'd eyes. View more context for this quotation 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. vii. 256 The nameless ailing of overwearied flesh. 1927 E. Glyn ‘It’ i. 10 He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism which can only be called ‘It’. 1972 P. O'Brian Post Captain vii. 182 Those strange sliding keels and the nameless peculiarity of her quickwork did not mean that the water poured straight in. 6. That one shrinks from naming; inexpressibly loathsome; abominable. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > [adjective] awlyc1200 grievousa1300 grilla1300 uglya1300 strongc1300 outrageousa1325 heinousc1374 excessive1393 curseda1400 fella1400 misshapenc1400 rankc1400 monstruousc1425 enorm1481 prodigiousc1487 villainous1489 nefand1490 sceleratea1513 monstrous1531 funestal1538 enormious1545 facinorous1548 flagitious1550 dire1567 bonable1575 felonious1575 bomination1589 unvenial?1589 heathenish1592 enormous1593 villainous1598 nameless1611 pitchy1612 funest1636 funestous1641 scarleta1643 nefandous1649 aversable1663 atrocious1669 frightful1700 flagrant1706 atrocea1734 diabolical1750 unspeakable1831 the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > emotion compounded of fear and loathing > [adjective] horrible1303 horrid1602 nameless1611 shockinga1704 shocking1703 1611 Bible (King James) Wisd. xiv. 27 Worshipping of idoles not to be named [margin namelesse], is the beginning, the cause, and the end of all euill. View more context for this quotation a1704 T. Brown Satyr against Woman in Wks. (1707) I. i. 84 Of impotent-still-varying Desires; And of ten thousand nameless Vices more, Is this vile Idol made, which Men adore. 1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci v. i. 80 Avenging such a nameless wrong As turns black parricide to piety. 1866 H. P. Liddon Bampton Lect. (1875) vi. 308 Paganism allowed man to sink beneath a flood of nameless sensualities. 1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out ii. 20 She suspected him of nameless atrocities with regard to his daughter. 1981 A. MacLean River of Death i. 13 Shadowy Dantesque figures moved as in some nameless nightmare. 7. Of a grave, tomb, etc.: bearing no name or inscription. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [adjective] > bearing no inscription nameless1655 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 115 Namelesse Altars, monuments of that expiation. 1720 A. Pope Epitaph Rowe in Misc. Poems I. 176 Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies. 1859 A. A. Procter Legends & Lyrics 1st Ser. 104 Over a nameless grave. 1867 H. Latham Black & White 68 Of these graves 138,901 will be nameless and unidentified. 1951 Public Opinion Q. 15 245 Even the ‘true Aryans’ whom Nazism promised jobs and security, ended their lives in nameless graves. B. n. Chiefly literary and poetic. With the: a person whose name is not specified or known; a person who does not have a famous name; a group of such people.In quot. 1589: spec. †an anonymous writer (obsolete). ΚΠ 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxxi. 48 After whom followed Iohn Lydgate.., & that nameles, who wrote the Satyre called Piers Plowman. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. ii. 22 The famed and named go; the nameless, if they have an accuser. 1863 J. Hamilton Poems & Ess. 300 But the nameless, though giftit, are caul' i' the yird, Ere a sang or a word i' their praise she wull mird! 1963 T. Merton Emblems of Season of Fury 53 Who would dare to go nameless in so secure a universe? Yet, to tell the truth, only the nameless are at home in it. 1988 C. Song Frameless Windows 7 The son would..Forfeit what welled within her In order to save the nameless, the cripple, the unspeakable. Compounds nameless finger n. now rare the ring finger. [Compare Middle Dutch nāmelōse vinger, Middle Low German nāmelōse vinger, Middle High German der vinger ungenant (German ungenannter Finger (now rare)), early modern German namloß finger (15th cent.), Swedish namnlös finger, all in sense ‘ring finger’, and compare also similarly formed names for the ring finger in many other languages.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] > ring finger ring fingereOE leech-fingerc1000 leechc1290 leechman14.. medicinable finger?a1475 ring man?c1475 wedding-finger1543 nameless finger1584 medicinal finger1598 physic finger1621 physical finger1623 physician finger1623 medical finger1653 marriage finger1711 ring digit1867 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xii. xviii. 273 Put thy nameles finger in the wound. 1874 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Dec. 11 Did the Aryan borrow it from the Turanian, or the Turanian from the Aryan? Then, why should the ring-finger be called the ‘nameless finger’? 1915 T. W. Arnoldson Parts of Body in Older Germanic & Scand. 68 Nameless finger (hdg.), Sw[edish] dial[ect] namnlös (finger), næmlusfinger, næmnusfinger ring finger, lit. nameless finger... MHG. der vinger ungenannt der vierte Finger, Ringfinger, lit. the unnamed finger. 1939 Y. Lin Moment in Peking 61 We pound them [sc. flowers] into pulp and add a little alum, and rub it on the ‘nameless finger’ (third finger). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1330 |
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